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Title
A name given to the resource
The "Sun Inn" Group
Description
An account of the resource
Also known as the Manchester group, this was the most high-profile and prolific English city group in the nineteenth century. The "Sun Inn" group (named after the Manchester pub where they met) went on to launch the Lancashire Authors Association and contributed to an anthology, The Festive Wreath (1842), edited by John Bolton Rogerson, which included contributions by John Critchley Prince, Isabella Varley, George Richardson, Robert Story, Robert Rose ("the Bard of Colour"), Elijah Ridings, William Gaspey, Richard Wright Proctor, John Mills, Thomas Arkell Tidmarsh, John Scholes and Eliza Battye. It included Alexander Wilson’s poem "The Poet’s Corner" (first printed as a broadside, also printed in Maidment, 163-6), which was sung at the second meeting of the Lancashire Poetical Soiree and refers to 28 local poets and supporters (their names are annotated by hand by Isabella Varley on a copy reproduced by Maidment). Ben Brierley’s Journal regularly published verse by other Mancunian labouring-class poets, most notably Fanny Forrester.
LC Poet
First Name
Ben
Last Name
Brierley
Pseudonym
Ab o' th'Yate
Active Decades
1860
1880
1890
Birth Date
1825
Death Date
1896
Gender
male
Nationality
English
Industry
weaving
publishing
government
Occupation
handloom weaver of velvet
journalist
city councillor
Birthplace
Failsworth, Manchester
Place of Publication
Manchester
Biography
He edited <em>Ben Brierley's Journal</em>, a first monthly and later weekly magazine which appeared from April 1869 to December 1891.
Published Poetry Collections
<p><em>Goosegrave Penny Readings</em> (<em>c</em>. 1865)</p>
<p><em>Spring Blossoms and autumn leaves </em>(Manchester, 1893)</p>
Periodical Publications
<em>Ben Brierley's Journal</em>
Anthology Appearances
<p><a title="archive.org" href="http://archive.org/details/balladssongsofla00harluoft" target="_blank">Harland, John, <em>Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (Part 2, Modern)</em>, corrected, revised and enlarged by T.T. Wilkinson (East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing limited, 1976)</a>, facsimile edition based on the third edition of 1882, 447-8, 552-4</p>
<p>Hollingworth, Brian (ed), <em>Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry of the Industrial Revolution</em> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977), 152</p>
<p> </p>
Non-Poetical Publications
<em>Home Memories and Recollections of a Life</em> (Manchester, 1886)
ODNB
<a title="Benjamin Brierley" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3405" target="_blank">"Benjamin Brierley," by C.W. Sutton</a>
Secondary Sources
<p>Ashton, Owen and Roberts, Stephen, <em>The Victorian Working Class Writer</em> (London and New York: Mansell, 1999), ch. 8, 97-121</p>
<p>Maidment, Brian (ed), <em>The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain</em> (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987), 360-2, 364-6</p>
<p><a title="NRA" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/" target="_blank">National Register of Archives</a> (Manchester) </p>
<p>Reilly, Catherine W., <em>Late Victorian poetry, 1880-1899: an annotated biobibliography</em> (London and New York: Mansell, 1994), 64</p>
<p>Vicinus, Martha, ‘The Study of 19th-Century British Working-Class Poetry’, in <em>The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English</em>, ed. by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter (New York: Random House, 1970), 322-53, 349n5</p>
<p>Vicinus, Martha, ‘Literary Voices of an Industrial Town: Manchester, 1810-70’, in <em>The Victorian City: Images and Realities</em>, ed. by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), 739-61, 753-6</p>
<p>Vincent, David, <em>Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography</em> (London and New York: Methuen, 1981), 111-13, 182</p>
<p>Zlotnick, Susan, <em>Woman, Writing and the Industrial Revolution</em> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 195-7</p>
<p> </p>
Pickering and Chatto Volumes
LC 5 (331-3)
LC 6 (363-72)
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ben Brierley
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013-06-20
1860
1880
1890
dialect poet
English
government
male
publishing
weaving
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The "Sun Inn" Group
Description
An account of the resource
Also known as the Manchester group, this was the most high-profile and prolific English city group in the nineteenth century. The "Sun Inn" group (named after the Manchester pub where they met) went on to launch the Lancashire Authors Association and contributed to an anthology, The Festive Wreath (1842), edited by John Bolton Rogerson, which included contributions by John Critchley Prince, Isabella Varley, George Richardson, Robert Story, Robert Rose ("the Bard of Colour"), Elijah Ridings, William Gaspey, Richard Wright Proctor, John Mills, Thomas Arkell Tidmarsh, John Scholes and Eliza Battye. It included Alexander Wilson’s poem "The Poet’s Corner" (first printed as a broadside, also printed in Maidment, 163-6), which was sung at the second meeting of the Lancashire Poetical Soiree and refers to 28 local poets and supporters (their names are annotated by hand by Isabella Varley on a copy reproduced by Maidment). Ben Brierley’s Journal regularly published verse by other Mancunian labouring-class poets, most notably Fanny Forrester.
LC Poet
First Name
George
Last Name
Banks
Authority Name
George Linnaeus Banks
Active Decades
1860
Birth Date
1821
Death Date
1881
Gender
male
Nationality
English
Industry
artisanry or trade
publishing
Occupation
cabinet casemaker
salesman
editor
Birthplace
Birmingham
Published Poetry Collections
<em>Daisies in the Grass </em>(1865)
Anthology Appearances
<a title="archive.org" href="http://archive.org/stream/warwickshirepoe00pool#page/236/mode/2up" target="_blank">Poole, Charles Henry (ed), <em>Warwickshire Poets</em> (London: N. Ling & Co, 1914), Poets of the Shires series</a>, 236-41
ODNB
"<a title=""George Linnaeus Banks," W.E.A. Axon" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1295">George Linnaeus Banks</a>," by W.E.A. Axon
Correspondents
Sun Inn Group
Relatives
Isabella Varley Banks (wife) (qv)
Secondary Sources
<p>Sutton, David C. (ed), <em>Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries </em>(London: The British Library, 1995), 73</p>
Manuscript Information
<ul><li>British Library, Department of Manuscripts (London)
<ul><li>Letter to George Cruikshank (In RP1511)</li>
<li>2 letters re: application for a Royal Literary Fund grant, 1866-67 (In Loan no.96)</li>
<li>Letter etc. to J. Winter Jones, 1877 (Add.MS.45747, f.11)</li>
<li>Letter to G. Linnaeus Banks, 1867 (RP3231)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>John Rylands University Library of Manchester
<ul><li>Poems, 1872-79. 9 items. With cuttings of printed poems, a pencil sketch of or by Banks, a poem initialed “GLB” but in the hand of Mrs. G. Linneaus Banks, and other associated material (E.L. Burney Collection, in scrapbook R144330)</li>
<li>“Romance in reality,” short story by Banks, 18--. 42 pages (In E.L. Burney Collection)</li>
<li>Letter, 18--. With a prospectus for “Spring gatherings,” a volume of poems by Banks (English MS.351/11)</li>
<li>Letter to Isabella Varley (later Mrs. G.L.B.), 1843. With copies of notes by Mrs. Banks on a variety of subjects (In E.L. Burney Collection)</li>
<li>2 letters to George Cruikshank, 1866 (English MS.1282/4-5)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Manchester Central Library
<ul><li>Letter to John Harland, 18-- (Harland I.118)</li>
<li>Letters (small collection), 18--. Recipients include: W.C. Bennett, J.E. Carpenter, Charles Dickens, Charles Macka, Westland Marston, John Oxenford, Marguerite A. Power, Samuel Warren, W.G. Wills (In Harland I.)</li>
<li>Letter from W.G. Wills, 1867 (MS f091 H15, I.24)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Portsmouth Central Library
<ul><li>Crazy Kate [poem], 18--. With cuttings about Banks (Special Collections. Friends of Charles Dickens: autograph letterbook, fol.90</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Stratford-upon-Avon)
<ul><li>Letter to George Cruikshank, 1864 (DR187/4)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University College Dublin
<ul><li>Letter to William Carleton, 1856 (Archives Department. LA15/1710)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University of Edinburgh
<ul><li>5 letters to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1863-67 (In L.O.A.)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University of Liverpool Library
<ul><li>“What I live for,” poem by Banks, 18-- (Hope Autographs, no. 55)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
George Linnaeus Banks
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013-05-24
1860
artisanry or trade
English
male
publishing